Howie Hawkins, the Green Party nominee for governor of New York, spoke against the United States’ two-party political system and in support of his own progressive ideas during a recent visit to Ithaca College.

IC Greens, Ithaca College’s green party organization, will host a 24 hour-theater festival in which students will write and direct six different plays in 24 hours. The plays will be performed at 8 p.m. Sept. 12 in the Hill Center, room 104.

IC Greens, Ithaca College’s Green Party, is producing a production of “The Laramie Project” and “The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later,” the story of a gay college student named Matthew Shepard who was tied to a fence and beaten to death because of his sexuality on April 24–27.